Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
February 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1985A church's weekly Sunday attendance falls from 120 to 90 over five years, while its midweek 'Messy Church' grows to attract 40 new families. Calculate the percentage fall in Sunday attendance.
- 2nd February 1985Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
- 3rd February 1985According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 4th February 1985According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
- 5th February 1985Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
- 6th February 1985Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
- 7th February 1985Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
- 8th February 1985Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
- 9th February 1985Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
- 10th February 1985State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
- 11th February 1985Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
- 12th February 1985Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
- 13th February 1985In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
- 14th February 1985In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
- 15th February 1985Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
- 16th February 1985Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
- 17th February 1985Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
- 18th February 1985Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
- 19th February 1985Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).
- 20th February 1985In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
- 21st February 1985State what Zakah is calculated as a percentage of.
- 22nd February 1985Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 23rd February 1985According to James 2:26, what is faith without deeds compared to?
- 24th February 1985According to Hebrews 4:15, what does the belief that Jesus is 'tempted in every way, just as we are' mean for how Christians view God's understanding of suffering?
- 25th February 1985State the name given in some churches to a service that welcomes a baby without using water, instead of infant baptism.
- 26th February 1985According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 27th February 1985State whether 'widespread dishonesty in business' is described as a minor or a major sign of the Last Day.
- 28th February 1985Give one term used for the mosque in Jerusalem associated with the Isra.